Discovering the brain’s nightly “rinse cycle”

Re:Discovering the brain’s nightly “rinse cycle” by steve_adams_86 on Thursday March 05, 2020 @04:31PM (#22498552)

Sleep is so good for the mind and body that unlike almost any medicine, it can not only make you feel better but heal you in ways you otherwise couldn't be. It's pure elixir for humans.

It really is crazy how much some cultures (including mine) neglect it.

I love to sleep and always have, but I've been shamed for it (in the weird way that is North Americans do that sometimes) and felt like I needed to optimise my schedule or sleep less or whatever. It's all crazy. Just sleep! It's nice, it's free, soak it up.

Unless of course you can't. Man, I feel for people with insomnia.

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Re:Discovering the brain’s nightly “rinse cycle” by hnick on Thursday March 05, 2020 @06:39PM (#22499622)

Example of that first point, I woke up one day with extremely dry eyes to the point where it felt like I had a grain of sand in one eye. It was painful every time I blinked. I taped my eye shut to stop blinking which only helped a bit.

I asked if anything could be done other than eye drops which was about 5 seconds of relief but starting to irritate the skin around my eye due to the chemicals.

Optometrist said a full night of sleep. Nothing else will fix it. And he was right.

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Re:Discovering the brain’s nightly “rinse cycle” by chillfox on Thursday March 05, 2020 @09:23PM (#22500506)

yeah, I like getting in a good 11-12 hours on the weekends, so natually some people thing something must be wrong with me.

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